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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Short update & Fall sewalong

Sooo, just a short update in between trips. My summer school was a lot of fun, with interesting lectures every day, cool workshops (my main one was Clowning and we even went to a nursing home on the last day to try out our skills) and the coolest thing of all: free afternoon activities like action painting, a field trip teaching about local traditional healing plants, bodypainting...I even got up every morning at 7:00 to try out the different wake up activities like singing, Tai Chi, Yoga and Voice&Breathing, and there was music and dance lessons in the evenings... I was also pretty amazed to get to know so many deeply creative, wonderful people who also happen to study Medicine. :D

I had so much fun, the only time I managed to pick up my book or my knitting needles was during the trip... Which was ok, because I used cotton yarn instead of sock yarn, which resulted in a shaft that would have fit a small elephant, so I had to unravel it and start over. I got this far:

I haven't managed to do much of anything since arriving at my parents'. We took along another friend, so we showed him around, went to have ice-cream, saw Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and Kleist's "Amphitryon" open air - and I went yarn shopping. I've never knitted anything more complicated than a scarf or wrist warmers, and that little bit of ribbing is the most I've ever made of a sock. But Sarah'sLearning to Knit project and Sweater Knitalong have put a silly little voice in my head that's hopping around, coaxing me to make a knit dress. In red. With a cowl neck and no sleeves. It actually has a very specific picture of how it's supposed to look like. So I saw this cute bamboo&rayon yarn at the local yarn shop and bought every last skein they had. Which amounted to this:

Which is slightly silly, because the eight skeins amount to 400g and it says on the label that you need 650g to make a pullover. The skeins were on sale for only 1€ apiece, though, so if I don't find at least 5 more of them somewhere, they'll make a nice very long scarf and mittens. Maybe.

Now, before I have to run and pack the rest of my stuff to go to Vienna later, I'd like to announce that after the very successful Second Annual Summer Essentials Sew-Along (some of you are still sewing - yay! :), Sarah, Ali and I have decided to continue the fun and host a Fall-Essentials Sew-Along, starting in September! :)

We're still ironing out the last of the details, but we'll be back with more infos before September starts, I promise! :)

Your summer school sounds like so much fun and that photos of you so painted up is pretty cool too! If you haven’t checked it out yet, try Ravelry – tons of free patterns and you can even look them up by yarn type. I bet you find something for the bamboo yarn you bought.

Hehe, re your washing comment, interesting.. When my kids were little I washed everything everyday too! Well, little kids don't take care to avoid spilling food on their clothes, or think about the consequences of jumping about happily in a muddy puddle, and so they shouldn't either! It's only as we get older and wiser (?) that we start to worry about stuff like our clothes... :)

You look great with the body paint! The camp sounds like fun. I like the colour of the yarn you bought, sure it will knit up really nicely. The cowl neck dress sounds very pretty and versatile. I hope your trip to Vienna is good.

How fun! It looks like you got to do a bunch of cool things! I'm so excited that you guys are going to do another Sew-Along for the Fall as well. I'm really looking forward to it! Thank you also for the sweet comment on my blog! :-)

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